Text recognition being a longstanding problem in computer vision plays a pivotal role in a diverse set of applications, ranging from OCR systems [1]}, [2]}, [3]}, [4]}, navigation and guiding board recognition [5]}, to more recent ones such as visual question answering [6]}. With the advance of deep learning [7]}, [8]}, [5]}, [10]}, recognition accuracy have notably increased over traditional methods [11]}. Research focus has thus shifted to the more practical “in-the-wild” setting in an attempt towards ubiquity. Of these, irregular scene text recognition [7]}, [5]}, [14]}, [15]} has gained considerable attention, yet the focus is placed on irregular-image rectification process [8]}, [14]} other than the core recognition problem itself.
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